Stuff and Superpowers

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(right-side shot of Influence entering through a doorway into a dark room)

Influence: Oi Gatling, you talk to Blue Steel regularly don’t you?

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(Cartoonish view from behind of Gatling looking over his shoulder towards the door, he can be seen to be holding some belts.)

Gatling(sfx): hrnn?

Show glossary

Metatypes

Metatype: A metatype is the term used to describe how an individual character possesses abilities.

Human: baseline unmodified human, always followed by the "¬Ability type" tag which clarifies what sets them apart from ordinary people
Inhuman: humans with naturally-occurring genetic alterations which grant certain abilities / characteristics. More specifically, people with mutations that could be cultivated to evolve the human species further.
Metahuman: humans who have modified their bodies to gain abilities, or have become permanently modified through some means. Most common is cybernetics, however other sources could be chemical influences, mutagenic alteration, or forming a relationship with symbiotic organisms.
Neomorph: an unnatural genetic creation, or an intelligent subject not born naturally from humanity.

Roles

Role in this case refers to what part of a team an individual's abilities would best suit their abilities. Roughly equates to Classes in RPG's.

Face: suited to interacting with the public, or being a reassuring figure to rescued civilians. Also potentially skilled with infiltration, however this is not always the case.
Brick: physically strong defensive role, typically used for drawing combat attention or for moving heavy things.
Speedster: capable of rapid non-aerial movement, typically in the form of sprinting.
Flier: any operative that is capable of unaided flight (with the exception of using their standard equipment.)
Lance: capable of dealing a large amount of damage in a short space of time, either to a singular target or to a group.
Decker: an operative that specialises in dealing with computer systems, either through hacking or by deploying computer aided equipment.
Tinker: back-line equipment creator / maintainer, often deployed in the field using equipment of their own devising.

Threat Levels (Kielder-Turino scale)

Threat assessment plays a big part in deciding what operatives would be reasonable to send on any given mission, and may change at any time depending on the situation.

K-10: not considered threatening.
K-9: threat capable of disrupting all life within a singular building
K-8: threat capable of disrupting all life within a village
K-7: threat capable of disrupting all life within a town
K-6: threat capable of disrupting all life within a city
K-5: threat capable of disrupting all life within a small country or state
K-4: threat capable of disrupting all life within a country
K-3: threat capable of disrupting all life in a world region (e.g. Scandinavia)
K-2: threat capable of disrupting all life on a singular continent
K-1: threat capable of greatly disrupting all life on earth. Extinction level event.
K-0: threat capable of destroying the earth in such a way that life can no longer be sustained by it.

In addition, all values have a decimal multiple denoting likelihood of encounter, with K.0 being a certainty.

Tier Considerations

When deciding an operative's tier, it is decided by the rank of their second highest of these considerations.

Threat: the individual's threat level

Utility: how well their abilities benefit them in operations

Resources: the equipment and personnel they can command as part of their activities.

Combat: the highest threat level they can reliably combat solo.

Miscellaneous

Characters

Bulwark

TURC: D A C B
Tier: B?
Rank: almost probably
Team: A
Role: Speedster
Metatype: human
¬Ability type: Equipment
Gender: M
Personality type: protective, caring, moral, stubborn?
Abilities:
¬Equipment: two tower shields, heavy armour suit.

Special Technique: Duel Wielding
¬ Bulwark decides to carry both shields into battle rather than just one, in situations where more hits per minute are expected.
Special Technique: Shed Weight
¬ Bulwark removes all his heavy armour, and becomes the fastest* man alive.
_{*May not actually be the fastest}
Interpersonal relationships:

Additional notes:
Olympic decathlon champion

Influence

TURC: C A A C
Tier: A
Rank: 3
Team: A
Role: Face
Metatype: human
¬Ability type: Technique
Gender: F
Personality type: confident, blunt, unapologetic
Abilities:
¬Skills: Master bluffer
¬Equipment: voice amplification collar

Special Technique:
¬

Interpersonal relationships:

Mimiko <— highly critical of her as a result of their first direct interaction.

Additional notes:
Former poker champion known for bluffing multiple people, joined after Blue Steel threw a winning hand against her.

Gatling

BELTS FOR THE BELT GOD

TURC: B A B A
Tier: A
Rank: 8
Team: A
Role: Lance
Metatype: Metahuman
Gender: M
Personality type: Obsessive, self-assured, level-headed
Abilities: in-built equipment slot replacing left forearm
¬Equipment: gatling style repeating gun, ammunition types are "low impact," "tracer," and "high impact"

Special Technique: Overcharge
¬ All eight rounds of a magazine are loaded into the barrels of Gatling's gun, then fired at once.

Interpersonal relationships:

Altitude

TURC: A S C B
Tier: A
Rank: 2
Team: A
Role: Flyer
Metatype: Inhuman
Gender: M
Personality type:
Abilities: resistance to elevation changes, improved respiratory systems
¬Equipment: powered wingsuit

Special Technique: Strike from God
¬ Altitude drops from a great height, and uses the resultant speed from the maneuver to collide with an opponent with a whole lotta force.

Interpersonal relationships:

Additional notes:
Wings bear the words "SR-15 ALTITUDE," can act as an additional face in some circumstances.

Matrix

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In person, use casual clothing. Leggings of moderate fanciness and an oversized hoodie. maybe those cat ear headphones or something?

Digital persona is much less casual; swimsuit in the style of those Tron outfits, fancy short-ish skirt, brown leather short jacket, maybe a halo? Also, who needs legs when you can fly and don't physically exist?

TURC: S S B B
Tier: S
Rank: 4
Team: A
Role: Decker
Metatype: Metahuman
Gender: F
Personality type:
¬Physical: sedate, unresponsive, lazy
¬Digital: hyperactive, distractible, inquisitive
Abilities: digital presence, technopathy, wired nervous system

Special Technique: Blackout
¬ Using her connection to all digital devices, Matrix shuts down everything in a considerable area. Must be there physically, and she'll loose all connections for a short period.

Interpersonal relationships:

Superior

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TURC: A S D S
Tier: S
Rank: 2
Team: A
Role: Brick
Metatype: Metahuman(?)
Gender: F
Personality type: analytical, mechanical, cold
Abilities: enhanced physical strength, enhanced visual acuity, enhanced durability, enhanced stamina, enhanced lung capacity, enhanced reaction speed, by now you get the idea

Special Technique:
¬

Interpersonal relationships:

Blue Steel <— undefined positive relationship originating to prior to the Taskforce project's inception
Mimiko —> seen as a protective figure? Likes Superior because she sees ability first, and age second.

Blue Steel

TURC: S S S A
Tier: S
Rank: 1
Team: A
Role: Tinker
Metatype: Human
¬Ability type: Equipment
Gender: M
Personality type: direct, sarcastic, commanding
Abilities:
¬Skills: advanced robotics and mechatronics engineer
¬Equipment: motion-activated armour suit, additional equipment as necessary

Special Technique: Call for Backup
¬ Blue Steel puts out a request for backup with a special priority code, and the nearest operatives and extra equipment is immediately sent to his location.

Interpersonal relationships:

Mimiko

TURC: A S ? S
Tier: S
Rank: 3
Team: A
Role: Lance
Metatype: Inhuman
Gender: F
Personality type: quiet, determined, meek towards superiors (whomever she deems a "pro")
Abilities:
¬Skills: perfect mimicking ability
¬Ability: vocal shockwave
¬Equipment: Noise cancelling/enhancing headphones, vocal limiter

Special Technique: "In My Own Voice"
¬ Mimiko shouts at an opponent using her own voice, resulting in a powerful shockwave (with neat lettering effects)

Interpersonal relationships:

Blue Steel -> Protector and mentor, taken under wing at a previous time.
Superior -> Guardian, trusted and admired.
Influence <- Disliked by, most likely from first interaction. Mimiko wants to be closer but is too terrified to ask.

Bullet Time

TURC:
Tier: B
Rank: One day
Role: Speedster
Metatype: Inhuman
Gender:
Personality type:
Abilities: slowed perception of time -> highly enhanced reaction speed

Special Technique:
¬

Interpersonal relationships:

Forge

TURC:
Tier: A
Rank: 7
Role: Tinker
Metatype: Inhuman
Gender: Male
Personality Type: stony, collected, creative
Abilities: Able to withstand extreme heat
¬Tech: "Lava lamp" tank, sprayer gloves

Special Technique:
¬

Bloom

TURC:
Tier: B
Rank:
Role: Tinker
Metatype: Chemically-Induced Metahuman
Gender: Female
Personality Type: caring, kind
Abilities: Produces a special enzyme in her sweat that allows her to make plants grow much faster.
¬Side Effect: Enzyme causes extreme hair growth, especially when Bloom is in distress or worked up.

Special Technique:
¬

Starfish

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TURC: B S ? A
Tier: C
Rank:
Role: Brick
Metatype: Neomorph
Gender: Male
Personality Type: prideful
Abilities: Can regenerate any removed body part, the more severe the injury and longer it takes to fully heal.

Special Technique: Primal Intimidation
¬ Starfish's regeneration allows him to tear off his own limbs and beat you with them.

Interpersonal relationships:

Additional notes:
Doesn't know he's a neomorph or anything about his past until he loses a limb in an accident and it just comes back.

Dormir

TURC:
Tier: B
Rank: meh
Role: Lance
Metatype:
Gender: male
Personality Type: tired, lazy
Abilities: Can put anyone to sleep by exhaling a chemical that is only released when he yawns.
¬Tech: Implant in throat that amplifies the chemical's power.

Special Technique:
¬

Mach-Blade

TURC: B S S A
Tier: S
Rank: 5
Team: B
Role: Lance
Metatype: inhuman
Gender: M
Personality Type: Terse, dedicated, professional
Abilities: nonstandard reaction mechanisms; heavily enhanced reflexes
¬Skills: high dexterity, high level of weapons proficiency
¬Equipment: Amorphous steel bladed Wakizashi (sharp as glass, strong as metal), heirloom Ōdachi

Special Technique:
¬

Interpersonal relationships:

Blue Steel <- high level of respect, cold and professional relationship
Runner <- reluctantly puts up with her shit
Immovable <-> old drinking buddies

Additional notes:
Current leader of the Japan-based B-team (Highest ranking operative not on the A-team)

Runner

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Long hair tied in a side-tail?(colour?) Wears a dark grey hoodie with her supranym printed diagonally across the front. Has to wear short shorts so her prosthetic legs aren't interfered with.

TURC: B A S C
Tier: A?
Rank: 6
Team: B
Role: Speedster
Metatype: Metahuman
Gender: F
Personality type: flippant, slacking, mysterious
Abilities: Enhanced running ability, perfect recall, enhanced low-light vision

Special Technique:
¬

Interpersonal relationships:

Additional notes:
High level of connection to the Akihabara criminal network
Intentionally modified to be a criminal goods runner

Conduit

TURC: C A C B
Tier: B
Rank:
Role: Lance
Metatype: Inhuman
Gender: M
Personality type:
Abilities: conductive / capacitative skin
¬Equipment: super-capacitors able to electrify his skin

Special Technique: Supercharge
¬ Conduit dumps all his capacitors into his skin at once, allowing for one big blast.

Interpersonal relationships:

Tiger Shark

TURC: B A B A
Tier: A
Rank: 11
Team: C
Role: Brick
Metatype: Metahuman
Gender: F
Personality type: Brash, direct, aggressive
Abilities: shark-like morphology, shock absorbent skin, puncture-resistant skin, enhanced physical strength

Special Technique: Chomp
¬ Tiger shark bites you. She's a shark. Need I say more?

Interpersonal relationships:

Swordfish <-> same origin
Dragon <-> same origin
Shadow <-> same origin

Swordfish

TURC: A A B A
Tier: A
Rank: 4
Team: C
Role: Lance
Metatype: Metahuman
Gender: F
Personality type: flashy (not in the lewd way), proud, unapologetic
Abilities: shark-like morphology, prosthetic chainsaw arms, enhanced low light vision

Special Technique:
¬

Interpersonal Relationships:

Tiger shark <-> same origin
Dragon <-> same origin
Shadow <-> same origin

Dragon

TURC: B A B A
Tier: A
Rank: 10
Team: C
Role: Speedster
Metatype: Metahuman
Gender: F
Personality type: lazy, quippy, flashy (in the lewd way)
Abilities: shark-like morphology (elongated tail), enhanced reaction speed, hip mounted water jets

Special Technique: The Bends
¬ Dragon grabs a hold of the opponent and transports them swiftly upwards, causing them to lose consciousness.

Interpersonal relationships:

Swordfish <-> same origin
Tiger Shark <-> same origin
Shadow <-> same origin

Shadow

TURC: A A B B
Tier: A
Rank: 5
Team: C
Role: Decker
Metatype: Metahuman
Gender: F
Personality type: reclusive, quiet, adaptable
Abilities: shark-like morphology, technopathy, polychromic skin

Special Technique: Camouflage
¬ Shadow's skin allows her to virtually disappear when stationary.

Interpersonal relationships:

Swordfish <-> same origin
Dragon <-> same origin
Tiger Shark <-> same origin

Lantern

TURC:
Tier: A
Rank: 13
Team: C
Role: Face
Metatype: Metahuman
Gender: M
Personality type: reserved, calm, peacekeeper in the team
Abilities: bioluminescent symbiote

Special Technique: Glowing Cloud
¬ Lantern releases most of the bioluminescent bacteria in his body, which illuminates the water around him. He can only use this once every three months and it makes him glow very dimly.

Interpersonal relationships:

Vogue

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TURC: C B A C
Class:
Rank:
Team: B
Role: Tinker(s)
Meta type: Human
Gender(s): F
Personality:
Abilities: Mental link, vast knowledge of fashion and technology, ability to know exactly what look works for someone.
¬Equipment:

Special Technique:
¬

Interpersonal relationships:

Immovable

TURC:
Class: A
Rank: 12
Team: B
Role: Brick
Metatype: Inhuman
Gender: M
Personality: Sedate, direct, informal
Abilities: Enhanced physical strength, enhanced durability, heavily enhanced body mass.
¬Equipment: stab-proof vest, arm bracings.

Special Technique:
¬

Interpersonal relationships:

Mach-Blade <-> old drinking buddies

Celebrity

TURC: ? ? S ?
Class: A
Rank: 9
Team: B
Role: Face
Metatype: human
¬Ability type: Beauty
Gender: M
Personality type: Humble, extroverted, open
Abilities: Naturally Beautiful

Special Technique: A Tweet
¬ Celebrity sends out a tweet, resulting in hundreds of people arriving wherever he needs them to.

Interpersonal relationships:
None

Adam

TURC: S S+ F ?
Tier: (probably S, untiered at introduction)
Rank: ^
Role: Face
Metatype: Neomorph
Gender: n/a
Abilities: Polymorphism, polychromism
¬Equipment: humanoid shell(?)

Special Technique: Mimicry (not present at start)
¬ Adam takes the exact form of any target.

Interpersonal relationships:

Additional notes:
Powers develop in proportion to how much freedom he's given, eventually learns to appear human without the need for the shell.

Zephyr

TURC: B B A C
Tier: B
Rank:
Role: flyer
Metatype: human
¬Ability type: equipment
Gender: male
Abilities:
¬Equipment: airship containing arsenal

Special Technique:

Interpersonal relationships:

Additional notes:
Likes to take on companions for random adventures, usually lower ranked operatives.

Walker

TURC: C C D B
Tier: C
Rank:
Role: Lance
Metatype: human
¬Ability type: equipment
Gender: male
Abilities:
¬Equipment: Robo-dog (Ren?)

Special Technique:

Interpersonal relationships:

Additional notes:
The dog was originally built by a niece to keep him active.

show in rank order

Tier S:
Blue Steel 1
Superior 2
Mimiko 3
Matrix 4
Mach-Blade 5
(Adam)

Tier A:
Athens/Athena 1
Altitude 2
Influence 3
Swordfish 4
Shadow 5
Runner 6
Forge 7
Gatling 8
Celebrity 9
Dragon 10
Tiger Shark 11
Immovable 12
Lanturn 13

Tier B:

Conduit
Bulwark
Zephyr
Bloom
Dormir
Bullet Time

Tier C:

Starfish

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show by teams

TEAM A:

Blue Steel (Leader)(Tinker)
Superior (Brick)
Mimiko (Lance)
Matrix (Decker)
Bulwark (Speedster)
Gatling (Lance)
Influence (Face)
Altitude (Flyer)

TEAM B:

Mach-Blade (Leader)(Lance)
Runner (Speedster)
Immovable (Brick)
Celebrity (Face)
Vogue (Tinker(s))

TEAM C:

Swordfish (Lance)
Tiger Shark (Brick)
Dragon (Speedster)
Shadow (Decker)
Lantern (Face)

NO TEAM:

Bullet Time (Speedster)
Forge (Tinker)
Bloom (Tinker)
Starfish (Brick)
Dormir (Lance)
Conduit (Lance)
(Adam (Face))
Athens/Athena (Decker)
Zephyr (Flyer)

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Antagonists

Athens / Athena

TURC: A S A B
Class: A
Rank: 1
Role: Decker
Metatype: Metahuman
Gender: varies
Personality type: reclusive, mysterious, vengeful
Abilities: physical polymorphism (humanoid only), holographic head representation
¬Equipment: a staggeringly enormous amount of drones

Special Technique:
¬

Interpersonal relationships:

Mimiko <- ultimate hatred for some past infraction, perhaps Mimiko took her place for the experiments that made her technopathic.

Sleeper

TURC:
Tier: Not Ranked
Rank: Not Ranked
Metatype: human
Gender:
Personality type: controlling, power hungry, sadistic?
Abilities:
¬Skills: proficient hypnotherapist
¬Equipment: earpieces for all under control

Special Technique:
¬

Lucifer

TURC:
Tier: Not Ranked
Rank: Not Ranked
Metatype: Inhuman
Gender: Male
Personality Type: Religious fanatic, skewed moral compass and sense of humanity
Abilities: Incredibly strong, has a cutaneous horn condition, and has extensive training in swordsmanship and general combat.

Special Technique:
¬

Show asynchronous development dump:

Need to discuss character options for the team B flyer, including name and personality

Storyline notes

Insubordinate

Mimiko is revealed to Team A, Athens/Athena is revealed to have been planning a major insurrection that is unveiled by Mimiko finally being at base.

Characters involved: Mimiko, Athens/Athena, Matrix, Superior, Blue Steel, Bulark, Influence, Gatling

Infiltration

Mimiko was separated from the team at the conclusion of the conflict with Athens/Athens, and now has come under the way of Sleeper.

Characters involved: Mimiko, Sleeper, Blue Steel

Overseas

Blue Steel brings Mimiko, Matrix and Superior to visit the B-team in Akihabara to remove any effects from Athens/Athena's actions. They get involved in local shenanigans with Lucifer.

Characters involved: Blue Steel, Mimiko, Matrix, Mach-Blade, Runner, Lucifer, Superior, Immovable

indelible

Starfish is admitted to a hospital because he's lost half his arm, real sad about it until the doctor inspects the wound and sees that its already healing. (during this time Starfish recounts how he doesn't know anything about himself because spoilers he's probably only been around for a short while relatively speaking) The doctor calls a doctor friend who just so happens to be the doctor friend Blue Steel calls on when someone's very injured.

Frontline

Training arc for Mimiko to get a proper licence, and to test out the newly stringent examination process. Mimiko learns some new ability?

Characters involved: Mimiko, Blue Steel, Superior.

Nightmare Scenario (unknown position)

Adam is created, Blue Steel cacks himself over the potential end of world scenario and builds a containment unit for the lad. Turns out he’s pretty nice.

Start off with lab scene, A-team move in to contain at the call of a disturbed tech, Adam is contained in a borosilicate glass room while BS continues to cack himself silly

Underseas (unknown position)

Something something C team, I swear I didn't plan that pun.

Augmentation

Something about the people who have Matrix her abilities, and who the core members of the C team went to for abilities.

Pathogen (unknown position)

Superior sent on a solo mission to uncover the source of a viral epidemic because robot and immune to those things. Matrix tags along in her digital form because she can. Plot develops, perhaps something to do with Superior not actually being a human person.

Potentially introduce a character related to the infection, named after the concept of an "index case" patient.

various between story ideas

Show off Dormir working with local police to pacify a gang (literally)

Starfish working with a Face (Lantern perhaps?) to fight a guy with a sword, gets his head cut in half and walks it off "Fuck this, I'll go to prison quietly."

Immovable and Superior have an arm wrestle, Runner starts taking bets.

Someone uses Conduit as a phone antenna, calls for pizza.

Superior gives Blue Steel her first progress report on Mimiko’s training while Gatling and Influence take over for a day. Switches between serious talking and Mim getting more and more worn down as the two trainers squabble on who has better teaching methods.

Altitude appears close to an airport's radar, BS has to explain to him why that's very illegal.

(Post Nightmare Scenario) Blue Steel and Matrix spend far too much time (and alcohol) trying to figure out a good supranym for Adam.

First story arc

Characters involved: Mimiko, Athens/Athena, Matrix, Superior, Blue Steel, Bulark, Influence, Gatling

Story events:

Opening section to show an average operation undertaken by the A-team? Influence, Superior and Bulwark maybe?

Bulwark comments on the lack of low-tier missions to Influence, and also how suspicious Blue Steel is being

Influence approaches Gatling and Matrix to try and find out if they know anything about BS's suspiciousness, they know nothing.

Inf, Gat and Bul approach BS directly, BS blows them off when he gets a call.

Gat texts Mat to try and hide in BS's armour, she agrees instantly despite not moving at all.

BS goes to meet with someone, Mat piggybacks on his armour cameras

BS meets up with Mimiko for an information handoff, Mat streams camera feed to squad

BS returns to HQ, Inf confronts him with the footage "Ah tits."

BS calls Mim to say she can now live at HQ if she wants, which of course she does.

Mim meets Inf first (bad encounter), Bul and Gat next (average interaction, somewhat rushed), Mim bumps into Superior and gets a tour of HQ, encounters Mat along the way.

Mim gets settled, finds BS to finalize her moving in, exposition relating to the debut of A team operatives.

Mim's ability is triggered by arrival of drone 1.

Mim takes a hole out of BS’s wall and is comforted by Sup. “You did not kill our leader. Good job.”

Mat arrives on scene and relays that she has gone and shut down a large amount of hidden drones in the area to BS

Mat spends a few minutes bombarding Mim with questions

BS instructs Mat to find the source of the drones.

Mim looks at Mat's real body still near-comatose, gag with rank box.